Cemetery transcription by members of the Jacksonville
Area
Genealogical and Historical Society

Words in brackets [ ] or parenthesis ( )are not on stone.

From page 431 of Deed Record UU in the Morgan
County
clerk's office it is found that on Nov. 12, 1863, Uriah J. Devore,
executor
of the estate of John Devore, deceased, sold land in Section 12 of
Township
14 N Range 9 W. He reserved the right of way to the burying ground
formerly
reserved on the said described land. The buyer was Uriah Johnson. When
the executor of Uriah J. Johnson's estate sold the land to Elmer E.
Smith
on Sept. 14, 1892, the cemetery was described as containing ½
acre
plus the right of way thereto. The executor was Thomas Hembrough and
this
transaction is found on pages 597 and 598 of Deed Record 46 in the
Morgan
County clerk's office. Harold Edwin Hembrough remembers that as
recently
as 1940 the tombstones in tiny Devore Cemetery were standing in a
pasture.
A visit to the site on Nov. 25, 1980 found a plowed field with no trace
of the cemetery to be seen. The site is reached by driving north from
Asbury
United Methodist Church one and 1/5 miles and turning east into a
private
road posted against trespassers. Following the winding private road
drive
.8 of a mile until a farm house and outbuildings are reached. The
cemetery
was located about 50 yards south of the house. Legal description would
be in the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter of the northwest
quarter
of Section 12 of Township 14 N Range 9 W, in the area of Lake
Jacksonville.

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